{"id":72887,"date":"2015-10-19T21:31:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T13:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/apt-satellite-launches-apstar-9-orders-apstar-6c-from-cast\/"},"modified":"2015-10-19T21:31:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T13:31:05","slug":"apt-satellite-launches-apstar-9-orders-apstar-6c-from-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/apt-satellite-launches-apstar-9-orders-apstar-6c-from-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"APT Satellite Launches Apstar 9, orders Apstar 6C from CAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 10-19-2015] <b>APT Satellite<\/b> launched Apstar 9, its replacement satellite for Apstar 9A, on Oct. 17 aboard a Long March 3B\/E&nbsp;rocket. Apstar 9 is based on <b>China Great Wall Industry Corp.<\/b>\u2019s (CGWIC) DFH-4 series platform and carries 39.5 C-band 36 MHz Transponder Equivalents (TPE) and 21 Ku-band TPEs. The spacecraft\u2019s C-band payloads cover the Asia Pacific and South East Asia, while its Ku-band footprint stretches from the East Indian Ocean to the West Pacific Ocean, targeting In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) and maritime broadband verticals.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately following the launch, APT Satellite entered a contract with CGWIC for Apstar 6C. Also based on the DFH-4 platform, Apstar 6C will be equipped with 45 transponders in C, Ku, and Ka bands, with a design service life of 15 years. Apstar 6C is a replacement satellite for Apstar 6, which launched in 2005, and is also able to serve as a backup plan for other under-planning Apstar satellite programs. The satellite is being designed for high-power transponder services to customers across the Asia-Pacific region such as VSAT, video distribution, DTH television and cellular backhaul.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 10-19-2015] APT Satellite launched Apstar 9, its replacement satellite for Apstar 9A, on Oct. 17 aboard a Long March 3B\/E&nbsp;rocket. Apstar 9 is based on China Great Wall Industry Corp.\u2019s (CGWIC) DFH-4 series platform and carries 39.5 C-band 36 MHz Transponder Equivalents (TPE) and 21 Ku-band TPEs. The spacecraft\u2019s C-band payloads cover the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}